Diary entry #14
In another life, I’m too poor and I don’t have a job.
I still live at home. There are too many accidents outside the house for me to
leave
my nose is filled with my father’s semen. My mother stores it there. She’s not
ready to have another baby yet. She still has hope in me—that one day I'll make
something of myself.
Everyday my parents go to work. And every day I fill out job applications and
wait for the accidents to occur. I move the bodies to the side of the road.
I organize them in neat stacks. I do not have to do this, but it is nice of me.
In the walls of my house lives my father’s underage mistress.
He does not know that I know about her.
When my parents go to work, I help her stretch her legs.
Somedays I think she is in love with me and not my father.
Other days, I think she does not like me.
At night she gives birth and scratches her devotions into the wall. I take the
babies and add them to the stack of bodies on the side of the road.
In another life, I’m too poor and I don’t have a job.
I still live at home. There are too many accidents outside the house for me to
leave
my nose is filled with my father’s semen. My mother stores it there. She’s not
ready to have another baby yet. She still has hope in me—that one day I'll make
something of myself.
Everyday my parents go to work. And every day I fill out job applications and
wait for the accidents to occur. I move the bodies to the side of the road.
I organize them in neat stacks. I do not have to do this, but it is nice of me.
In the walls of my house lives my father’s underage mistress.
He does not know that I know about her.
When my parents go to work, I help her stretch her legs.
Somedays I think she is in love with me and not my father.
Other days, I think she does not like me.
At night she gives birth and scratches her devotions into the wall. I take the
babies and add them to the stack of bodies on the side of the road.
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